Relationship between traumatic life events of childhood, borderline personality disorder and problematic cybersexual behavior

Introduction
Problematic cybersexual behaviours, including addiction and addiction risk, are a mental health reality, despite conceptual difficulties and diagnostic questions related to them. The literature underlines etiological factors such as childhood trauma, borderline personality disorder and certain sociodemographic factors.
Methods
A survey was carried among 235 voluntary participants (66% women, n=154) recruited online, with an average age of 22.8 years (±6.2). Participants completed a sociodemographic questionnaire – the Addictive Behaviours Test (TCA) – which is suitable for cybersexual addiction, a subscale of the Personality Disorder Questionnaire 4 (PDQ-4 +), evaluating Borderline Personality Disorder, and three subscales of the Childhood Experience of Care and Abuse (CECA) Interview to assess childhood trauma.
Results
The results confirm our hypotheses that traumatic life events and Borderline Personality Disorder are linked to problematic cybersexual behaviours.
Discussion
Our results underline the links between cybersexual addiction, borderline personality disorder and traumatic life events. They open up new avenues for research and clinical issues.